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diff --git a/Documentation/config/user.txt b/Documentation/config/user.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b5b2ba1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/config/user.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +user.email:: + Your email address to be recorded in any newly created commits. + Can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL`, `GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL`, and + `EMAIL` environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1]. + +user.name:: + Your full name to be recorded in any newly created commits. + Can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME` and `GIT_COMMITTER_NAME` + environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1]. + +user.useConfigOnly:: + Instruct Git to avoid trying to guess defaults for `user.email` + and `user.name`, and instead retrieve the values only from the + configuration. For example, if you have multiple email addresses + and would like to use a different one for each repository, then + with this configuration option set to `true` in the global config + along with a name, Git will prompt you to set up an email before + making new commits in a newly cloned repository. + Defaults to `false`. + +user.signingKey:: + If linkgit:git-tag[1] or linkgit:git-commit[1] is not selecting the + key you want it to automatically when creating a signed tag or + commit, you can override the default selection with this variable. + This option is passed unchanged to gpg's --local-user parameter, + so you may specify a key using any method that gpg supports. |